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Re: O/I POWER?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
Brent,
Keep this in the back of your head...Many computer power supplies need a minimum load current to turn on. If your power should fail at some point, it might be there is not enough current in the loads.
I've heard from our EE (Dale hall, used to post here) that a resistor or LED is usually sufficient load to achieve this.

Never tried it myself though.